MAURY – Inmate
Johnny Lewis, 55, (#0240471) was found dead Tuesday morning, the
victim of an apparent suicide.Officers at Maury Correctional Institution discovered Lewis
at 6:30 a.m. in his cell with a belt around his neck.

Lewis was
serving a life sentence for a second degree murder conviction in
RobesonCounty in 1978.

The Greene
County Sheriff's Department is conducting the investigation.